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@NatWei @BigBrotherWatch It’s very troubling, and even more so when resistance appears to be quite weak! #homeeducation #stopthecwsbill

Parents need to be aware - the state is dangerously close to finalising over-reaching powers to bring in Digital ID for under 18s, monitoring all online use and creating the right to implement digital curfews. @BigBrotherWatch politico.eu/article/uk-eye…

@KevTwitta @LBC @AliMirajUK You say that as if exam results are the only way to measure success? There are so many paths to "successful" adulthood. Richard Branson is a prime example of this. School attendance does not equal education.

@LBC @AliMirajUK The exam results will be the proof.

'All my friends are jealous I'm able to make that choice.' 15-year-old Jasmin has been homeschooled for the past three years and shares her experience with @AliMirajUK.

facebook.com/share/v/1NBQq7… Yes to children's wellbeing. No to the Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill. @educationgovuk @bphillipsonMP @Conservatives #AreYouListeningNow #FairHearing4HomeEd #Protecthomeeducation

@fionajnicholson It’s absolutely shocking that peers don’t see the implications of her amendment.

For home educators

CWS Bill Report Stage in HOL. Can't help but be annoyed that gov seem to think that, even though parents pay taxes that fund schools, home educators should not expect assistance to access exams. Tightfisted when it suits! parliamentlive.tv/event/index/d2…

@bphillipsonMP We’ve heard all about your “conversations”. Read the Special Needs Jungle article for a more accurate description of how well you’re listening (not!). m.facebook.com/story.php?stor…

We’re creating good, local schools with specialist SEND places and well trained teachers and support staff. Needs met Parents involved Children thriving Support without a fight That is Labour’s vision for a renewed SEND system.

@bphillipsonMP Ummm, is this the same minister that silences negative comments on her posts? That's the kind of nasty you find under totalitarian governments, so no wonder you're performing so badly in the polls!

We now have two versions of the nasty party in Britain, and they're both competing to see who can be nastier. Only Labour takes action to make sure your background doesn't determine what you can go on to achieve. Only Labour will tackle child poverty. inews.co.uk/news/politics/…

The government recently refused to help home ed families get better local access to sit exams. With extra cost and bureaucracy in the CSW Bill linked to home ed & Budget cuts, will more schools/centres be forced to deny families/children this basic right? schoolsweek.co.uk/home-education…

LA's seem to have great difficulty knowing how to do their jobs properly, even when they have all the power they need. Badly written law + inept LA's is a recipe for harm and harassment. We need to stop the CWS Bill now!

@NatWei Thank you so much for highlighting that this is purely down to LA safeguarding failure. If they cannot protect a child that they already know about, why would a so-called "register" magically get them to do the job they are already empowered to do?

Today’s LCSP review: Sara Sharif’s murder was committed by her father and not prevented due to serious LA safeguarding errors. Home education was not to blame. Yet the same overstretched LAs will now oversee new home-ed registers. Will this prevent harm or cause more errors?

"Buried inside the Children’s [...] Bill lies the blueprint for Starmer’s surveillance state. [It] convert[s] every child’s NHS number into a digital tag linking their school records, medical[...]and family details into one government-controlled network" citizengo.org

I don’t get this concept of us parents being ‘out of pocket’ by giving our own children breakfast. Isn’t feeding our own kids a basic premise of parenting responsibility, why would any parent regard themselves ‘out of pocket’ for doing so🤔

Watch our petition hit 100,000! #stopthecwsbill @bphillipsonMP @educationgovuk @simonsquibb @BruceUnfiltered facebook.com/reel/783348101…

@bphillipsonMP Pushing the Children's Wellbeing & Schools Bill through is political suicide for @UKLabour . You may want to rethink, unless you really don't want another term after this one. Prattling on about #FreeSchoolBreakfast and #schooluniform is fooling no-one. @bphillipsonMP .

At least 4 barristers (and I know of a 5th) have provided legal opinions that confirm that the Children's Wellbeing & Schools Bill is discriminatory, and could be challenged legally if it passes as is. Take off the blinkers and earplugs and start listening @bphillipsonMP . /2

I had the joy of joining the @stopthecwsbill protest yesterday in London. @UKLabour want to dismiss the march as "sparsely attended", but remember that for each one that attended, there are at least 10,000 people who feel the same! #AreYouListeningNow /1

IMPORTANT! There's currently no checks and balances to protect families from ultra vires LA behaviour. If this Bill becomes law, there still won't but stakes will be higher with prison if home ed families don't comply with bullying LAs @Keir_Starmer @bphillipsonMP @_RobbieMoore

It's time to pause and reflect on the Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill, contravenes ECHR Article 14 according to KC Aiden O'Neill. Read more in the long version of my speech below and repost to your local MP/Peer and Advisors. (5/5) tinyurl.com/ProtectHE @LabourList

It is a matter of historic record that when Parliament passed the Education Act of 1944, it deliberately safeguarded the right of parents — not the state — to determine their children’s education, as a bulwark against totalitarianism. (4/5) @LabourList

Agreed. We must be so careful in commodifying children as assets, eroding the importance of childhood in and of itself, not as a hothouse for a future we can neither predict nor control. Parents feel it deeply. Children and teens need the chance to be present, to explore, develop, experiment, fail, evolve, play, think, rest, thrive. EYFS is not about school readiness. School readiness is not about industrialised employment. It’s about so much more. When we only focus on the destination, we lose sight of the value and importance of the journey itself.